Principle of the Christian Walk

All your duties as a professing Christian may be ranged under three classes; those, namely, which concern yourself, those which concern the Church, and those which concern the world at large. Of these the first are the most important and indispensable; and they are the source of all the rest.

You are at present weak and inexperienced; and your power of resistance to the evil influences of the world is yet untried. Your spiritual enemies are numerous and mighty. Many have fallen in the very path which you are now attempting. How great should be your solicitude to run the race that is set before you I To do this, you must possess an inward living principle, the Author of which is the Holy Ghost. The all-important work therefore is within your own heart; the life of God in the soul. To this your first and constant attention must be directed; and you have already begun wrong, if you put any thing external in the place of this.